Scholarship

My Research

My primary areas of scholarship interest include Jungian psychotherapy, trauma therapy, queer experience (e.g., homonegativity, HIV, queer spirituality, identity development), holistic approaches to counselor development, dreams and dreamwork, and the transformation of shame in psychotherapy. 

I utilizes narrative and arts-based emancipatory methods, such as poetic inquiry, autoethnography, autobiography, and PhotoVoice to illuminate lived experience.

Current Projects

Currently I have three research projects underway.

COVID-Related Dreams.
I am conducting a qualitative survey study on the themes that emerge from COVID-related dreams. If you are interested in participating, please find the survey here.

Bodymapping in Counselor Trainee Personal and Professional Development.
Body mapping is a well-established experiential activity that can be used as a research method intended to illuminate lived experience via artistic expression and narrative, a psychotherapeutic intervention drawn from the world of expressive arts, and a tool for self-inquiry and personal growth. The purpose of this project is to explore the following research question: What are the benefits and limitations of body mapping as a process of personal and professional self-inquiry among counselor trainees in supervision? 

Sandplay with Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, and Gender Expansive Clients.
In my clinical experience, I have found that Jungian sandplay therapy is well-suited for depth psychotherapy with trans, gender non-conforming, and gender expansive clients. In this theoretical and clinical paper I draw from the trans identity development and sandplay scholarly literature to elucidate why the ways in which sandplay, as a non-verbal, symbolic, relational process is particularly healing for trans+ folx.